The co-founder of failed cryptocurrency exchange FTX pleaded not guilty to a seven count indictment charging him with wire fraud, securities fraud and money laundering.

An attorney for FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried said in federal court Tuesday his client has to subsist on bread, water and peanut butter because the jail he’s in isn’t accommodating his vegan diet.

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    1 year ago

    If you don’t, aren’t you just saying to the next con man that it’s okay, jail is too hard so you won’t actually get punished, might as well steal billions of dollars?

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      1 year ago

      i don’t think he’s a malicious conman trying to swindle grandma out of her retirement: i think he’s a stupid guy who dug a whole way too fucking deep. and i don’t think we should put people in cages for being stupid.

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        1 year ago

        Do you even know the case? If that dude isn’t a malicious conman, that phrase has no meaning.

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          1 year ago

          not intimately, no. maybe i’m wrong. i still don’t think locking him in a cage fixes anything.

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            1 year ago

            That’s a separate discussion, I just wanted to point out that in fact he did something similar to stealing grandma’s retirement funds, but on a much, much larger scale.

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        1 year ago

        You think a guy who graduated from MIT and got a job at fucking Jane Street is “stupid”. No. His problem is the missing moral compass, he’s got the smarts all day.

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          1 year ago

          i don’t know his biography and i haven’t followed the case very closely. maybe he is worse than i assumed. i still think it’s inhumane to lock people in cages.

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            1 year ago

            Yeah you said that a few times on this thread. I think it’s a weird view in the case of people who are likely to continue to harm people (if like SBF they show no empathy or contrition) but sure.

            Why are you so motivated to comment on the case if you haven’t followed it? Maybe just read and learn something.